Matching the size of vehicle to the size of job was the inspiration behind developing this utility vehicle. Rory Jackson reports.

The ABLE-XR from Tropos Motors is an electric compact utility vehicle (eCUV) designed for carrying loads over short distances, for delivery applications that would normally be reserved for...

Curtiss Motorcyles in the US has replicated a V8 engine with a distributed battery pack to provide higher efficiency for its latest Zeus model (writes Nick Flaherty).

The Zeus has a skeletal space frame anchored to the custom powertrain architecture. “With the battery cells packaged inside eight cylindrical towers configured in a flaring radial vee pattern, we’re able to...

Nick Flaherty highlights some of the inroads developers are making into rolling out a range of hydrogen-powered vehicles.

Many of the engineering challenges with converting hydrogen to electricity to drive a motor in a vehicle have been addressed over the past decade through the development...

A battery management start-up has developed a cloud-based battery monitoring service that can handle data from millions of electric bikes and cars on the road (writes Nick Flaherty).

The Edison management software from Indian company Ion Energy uses a design called FS-XT, developed by a technology company in France called...

This electric bus can be configured for propulsion and recharging in different ways. Rory Jackson explains how it’s used.

Solaris Bus & Coach, a Polish manufacturer of buses, shuttles and trolleybuses, has produced and supplied more than 18,000 vehicles across 32 countries, mainly in Europe. Since 2001 it has sought to develop energy-efficient and...

The world’s first fully electric ferry is undergoing sea trials in Denmark (writes Nick Flaherty).

The Ellen electric ferry is powered by a 4 MW battery pack made up of 840 cells that account for 50 tonnes of the ship’s total weight of 747 tonnes. Unlike other electric vessels, the Ellen has no...

With the need for thermal and electrical insulation in electric vehicles set only to grow, Rory Jackson outlines the options available.

With EVs and HEVs being designed now for longer ranges and heavier loads, so batteries are emerging that provide increasing quantities of energy. Most often, that means...

Hyundai has developed an Active Shift Control (ASC) transmission technology for hybrid electric vehicles that it says is the world’s first (writes Nick Flaherty)

The system uses software in the Hybrid Control Unit (HCU) to monitor gearshifts 500 times per second, adjusting the...

The technical manager at permanent magnet supplier MagDev gives Stewart Mitchell some pointers on their design and choice of materials for e-drive motors. With the ever-increasing drive for e-mobility, the development of permanent magnet electric motors and their associated power electronics is now one of the most heavily investigated areas of engineering in the...

There’s no doubt that EVs are much cleaner and friendlier to be around than anything powered by an internal combustion engine, as they produce no local emissions (writes Peter Donaldson).

They also use energy more efficiently in stop-go traffic, particularly when fitted with regenerative braking systems. Even petrol-diesel electric hybrids allow the engine to be...